Looks like kdesudo double encodes the output. This can be fixed with #! /usr/bin/env python3 import sys for line in sys.stdin: sys.stdout.write(line.encode('raw_unicode_escape').decode("utf-8")) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ sudo sh -c "echo привет" привет $ kdesudo sh -c "echo привет" пÑÐ¸Ð²ÐµÑ $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.10 Release: 14.10 Codename: utopic Kubuntu 15.10: exactly the same
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This project is unfortunately no longer maintained. If a new maintainer wants to step up and take care, the project is archived here: https://invent.kde.org/unmaintained/kdesudo You can just clone it in your private namespace on invent.kde.org and if you have started to work on it and fixed/implemented something get it reviewed and the project unarchived. Sorry for the inconveniences.